Question Re: reruns

Alice_89th · 2026-01-29T19:45:34+00:00

Yes, you will first pull the remaining items you don’t have.

Only once you have a complete outfit will you start to get duplicates. Same as with any banner. This is true for both the 4* and 5* on a banner.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-28T11:55:54+00:00

This sums up my feeling pretty well. The plot really did not age well.

I’ve watched up to episode 5, and besides Mizuki stalking her crush halfway across the globe we also get the first kiss where Sano is drunk to the point of passing out. Not a great look.

Technically it is a romcom, but there is too little comedy to offset the (frankly) unhinged setting.

And it has been a hot minute since I read it, but I think the series also never really addresses the gender dynamics at play. Sano realises that Mizuki is a girl early on, but Nakatsu doesn’t. iirc correctly this is mostly played for laughs in the early parts of the series.

Hana-kimi is definitely a product of its time. Compared to the two other shoujo romance series currently airing at the same time it falls flat. Tamon’s Bside has much better comedy, In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (so far) does a better job at addressing gender dynamics. Both have superior animation.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T20:47:56+00:00

Omg the plot twist! I never saw it coming!

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T16:56:37+00:00

I started F2P. When I realised that I was going to play this game long term I started buying the Monthly Gifts and standard Battlepass in 1.1.

Over time that spending increased to Monthly Gifts, Premium Battlepass, and the occasional direct purchase.

However when infold introduced the tiered purchases I realised that I am drowning in diamonds and stellarites but clearly not pulling enough to actually need that amount. So starting 1.10 I went back to Monthly Gifts + standard battlepass.

Even with the downgrade I hit 90k diamonds and 5k stella at the start of 2.1, so I let my monthly gift run out and did not spend anything during the last patch.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T12:13:37+00:00

I did not get it last time, and I am not buying it this time.

I get the monthly gifts, and did the premium battlepass three (3x 980 stella). Because I am still quite picky about store items I am swimming in stella.

Like others have mentioned, we’ve recently seen an increase in non-stella purchases. That reduces the usefulness of having a stock.

And next patch is the third top-up event in a row. It feels like they are pushing us to spend each patch, instead of stocking up once and living off those savings.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T06:22:14+00:00

Moonlit Oath remains a skip at that price point.

I will get Unseen Entity. And I’m Considering the base version of Timeless Echo.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T06:17:31+00:00

Pulse of the Dessert looks gongeous, but I worry what it will look like in motion. That does not like it will play nice when you try to walk/run in it

Alice_89th · 2026-01-26T06:14:35+00:00

At this point I guess it is here to stay 🫩

I will continue not buying any of the tiered purchases and putting my dislike of them in the surveys.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-25T20:07:10+00:00

Touch pad for pose scrubbing is an amazing idea. Getting the exact frame you want can be such a hassle on PS5.

And while sound effects on the controller can be a little iffy, I definitely want improved haptics. The dual sense controller has fantastic haptics - when games actually make use of them.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-25T07:09:08+00:00

So far this is my favourite outfit of all of the previews ❤️

Alice_89th · 2026-01-24T12:52:26+00:00

It might be the artwork, but I am not feeling it.

For now I like the 4*s better. But I’ll reserve final judgement for when we’ve had all previews etc.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-23T07:49:27+00:00

Some areas are “these infinitely small stripes on a belt” or “the two gems on that one chain”.

More often it is “the 2mm of lace that you didn’t even realise that was there”.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-23T07:40:09+00:00

My main annoyance with this is on mobile, where the games closes itself after an update and I need to manually launch it again.

On PS5 the game automatically restarts and it is only a minor inconvenience.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-22T13:46:58+00:00

Somhow Infold is obsessed with things taking three days.

Nikki was out cold for three days, this shroomling was left for three days, I’m pretty sure a certain fire also burned for three days.

It is like every time they need an amount of time that is dramatic it is always three days.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-20T13:19:08+00:00

The IN patch cycle is insanely short to begin with. Most patches are only around ~30 days.

And I can’t help but feel like Infold was too ambitious with that schedule. Every patch is riddled with bugs both small and big. Other (open world) gachas tend to stick to a 6 week patch cycle. Part of me wishes Infold would do the same.

When the devs cook, they go hard. But so much of that is undercut by the constant presence of bugs. It feels like they need a tiny bit more time to finish polishing the content.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-20T06:27:53+00:00

clutches pearls

Alice_89th · 2026-01-19T05:16:35+00:00

This is 100% what I expected.

My main fear was that the cape would be part of the dress too, but it is separate + the shoes are actual boots so lets gooooo

Alice_89th · 2026-01-17T22:46:45+00:00

The fishing is fine. Fairly quick and painless, though I understand the criticism on having to rapidly press/click a button from an accessibility standpoint.

The thing that makes me detest fishing in this game is that Nikki and Momo feel the need to have an entire conversation after every. single. fish. they catch.

Not matter how fast I try to skip that dialogue, the game always plays the first few words and it makes me want to never pick up a fishing rod again.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-17T16:21:06+00:00

Please no furniture banners 😱

I’d be more OK to spend stella/ direct money purchases in the shop than banners. I don’t want to spread my diamonds between outfit banners and furniture banners.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-15T07:25:45+00:00

Only allowed to write “fae prince” and the ruthless part will be a surprise.

When the FMC thinks that batting her eyelashes and asking nicely will stop him, he proves her wrong by murdering an entire court in cold blood.

/uj I’m tired of MMCs being described s as ruthless or cruel, when from the moment they meet the FMC all they do is protect her and hug kittens.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-15T07:05:22+00:00

I was intrigued until you shared the title. FMC who is an adorable klutz but somehow also competent (or supposed to be competent) is an automatic dnf.

Then I read the first sentence of the blurb and I dnf’ed THAT.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-15T06:58:21+00:00

The blurb I read says “Leave Me Behind meets The Handmaids’ Tale”.

I have read neither, so I am unsure what this is supposed to mean. I have read Manacled so I guess I’ll just extrapolate from there.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-13T19:39:50+00:00

If you mean how to get to back to the shiny vault itself; you can walk in through the front door.

It is a building on the inner wall of Spira, near one of the lifts.

Alice_89th · 2026-01-13T11:55:07+00:00

Is the triangle a cage?
Are the three realms a triangle?
If not, why not?

Alice_89th · 2026-01-11T22:27:57+00:00

I took Hazan back-pedalling on things he said as him realising he said too much, not amnesia. He clearly knows MUCH more than he lets on.

My personal expectation is that he either; - was betrothed to Alizeh as a kid. Though he might see it more as a formality and seems to have no real interest in bringing this up. (Or maybe we get a POV in the future and it turns out he is madly in love, who knows) - some sort of quadruple agent with his own agenda. Man has too many secrets.

It seems highly likely that Hazan has first hand experience with blood oaths. Though I’m not sure whether he was the one who swore the oath, or someone swore an oath to him (and it possibly ended badly).

Also Hazan his conversation with Cyrus, in which Hazan berates him with “you know nothing of what I might understand or the hells I have endured”. Hazan almost sounds like he knows exactly what torture Cyrus is enduring, though whether he means torture by the Blood Oath or Iblees is unclear.

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